From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53892) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ewqvV-0007fA-0E for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Mar 2018 11:05:49 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ewqvP-0003wg-GE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Mar 2018 11:05:48 -0400 Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:39544 helo=mx1.redhat.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ewqvP-0003t7-Cj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Mar 2018 11:05:43 -0400 From: Vitaly Kuznetsov References: <20180312151233.16565-1-vkuznets@redhat.com> <20180312151233.16565-3-vkuznets@redhat.com> <7d1afa27-9653-75dc-ebfe-8633b93f1ce6@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 16:05:40 +0100 In-Reply-To: <7d1afa27-9653-75dc-ebfe-8633b93f1ce6@redhat.com> (Paolo Bonzini's message of "Fri, 16 Mar 2018 15:49:30 +0100") Message-ID: <87efkk9i2j.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] i386/kvm: lower requirements for Hyper-V frequency MSRs exposure List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Richard Henderson , Eduardo Habkost , Marcelo Tosatti , Roman Kagan , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Paolo Bonzini writes: > On 12/03/2018 16:12, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: >> >> - if (has_msr_hv_frequencies && tsc_is_stable_and_known(env)) { >> + if (has_msr_hv_frequencies && env->tsc_khz) { > > Should this be > > ((env->tsc_khz && has_msr_hv_reenlightenment) || > tsc_is_stable_and_known(env)) > > so that you don't regress on older kernels? > I don't actually see where the regression might come from: frequency MSRs are supported regardless or reenlightenment/invtsc and there's nothing wrong with exposing them but I may be missing something.. -- Vitaly